Safeguarding the diversity of natural and semi-natural habitats in Europe is one of the aims
set out by the Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural …

Remote sensing is unique in its ability to record a variety of spatial and temporal data on
land surfaces with complete coverage, especially at larger spatial scales, and it has been …

Including biodiversity assessments in forest management planning is becoming increasingly
important due to the importance of biodiversity for forest ecosystem resilience provision and …

Ecological transformation is inevitable in development of land consolidation (LC) in China.
An appropriate approach for assessing ecological environmental quality (EEQ) is …

The advancements of the scientific knowledge require continuous efforts to convert these
progresses into social, economic, and political actions. Nowadays, as direct consequence of …

This paper deals with the question of the role landscape metrics can play in the
investigation, evaluation and monitoring of landscape structure, and which linkages …

The advancement of feature recognition and advanced image analysis techniques facilitates
the extraction of thematic information, for policy making support and informed decisions. As …

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a
discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote …

Landscape metrics are widely used to investigate the spatial structure of landscapes.
Numerous metrics are currently available, yet only little empirical research has …

Advances in remote sensing technologies have provided practical means for land use and
land cover mapping which is critically important for landscape ecological studies. However …